History VideoGame / TheGetaway1

''The Getaway'' is a UsefulNotes/Playstation2 game developed by Team Soho. It was first released in 2002 in Europe and Australia/New Zealand before it would be released in North America and Japan in 2003 and later in 2004 in South Korea. The game was released by Sony Computer Entertainment's various branches except for Japan, which was handled by Capcom Japan.

* ShoutOut: [[Series/TheSweeney One of the main characters is a Flying Squad detective named Carter]]. Or he could be named after ''Film/GetCarter''.

* AdultFear: The plot involves Mark Hammond's son getting kidnapped by the [=BGs=] and make him do things that he can't do anymore, from forcing him to kill his best friends in his favorite bar to dealing in drugs. It is also impossible for him to refuse this because he is an ex-criminal, which invites policemen to blame all the crimes on him.

* IHaveYourWife: The motivation for Mark Hammond. Hilariously parodied by the [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/520-The-Getaway Unskippable crew]]:

* ElectricTorture: Sparky tortures a the Triad member Johnny Chai with a car batteries.

* BittersweetEnding[=/=]NoEnding: [[spoiler: Mark is alive, but his wife is dead, and he can never return to London. Yasmin and Alex also get off the boat just moments before it blows, but we don't know if they managed to get out of London before the cops or other gangs found and killed Mark and Yasmin. Frank Carter also escapes by diving into the harbor, but we don't know if he survived the fall]]

* ElectricTorture: Sparky tortures a captured Triad member with a car batteries.

-->'''Mark''': Get on with it, Jolson. You always were a drama queen.

''The Getaway'' is a [=Playstation 2=] game developed by Team Soho. It was first released in 2002 in Europe and Australia/New Zealand before it would be released in North America and Japan in 2003 and later in 2004 in South Korea. The game was released by Sony Computer Entertainment's various branches except for Japan, which was handled by Capcom Japan.

The game takes place in 2002 in the Greater London Area. Mark Hammond, an ex-member of a British firm[[note]]Term for criminal gangs with British origins[[/note]] known as the Collins Gang, was released for good behavior after serving time for being involved in a [=CG=]-led armed robbery incident. He had settled down to get married to raise a family. However, the leader of the Bethnal Green gang, [[BigBad Charlie Jolson]], has big plans for London. And that involves [[WouldHurtAChild kidnapping Mark's only son Alex]]...

* BetterManhandleTheMurderWeapon: An egregious example. As Mark runs out into the street to find his wife shot, he drops his own gun only to paw the dropped murder weapon for a second.

* DeliveryGuyInfiltration: Mark enters a police station by impersonating a telephone repairman.

* FlashedBadgeHijack: As he is a police officer, Frank Carter is able to use this as an excuse to steal cars. Oddly he doesn't get into trouble for stealing cars when he is suspended.

* ShoutOut: One of the main characters is [[Series/TheSweeney a Flying Squad officer named Carter]].

* TheYardies: The Yardie crew run by Jamahl are an important faction in both games, controlling London's crack trade in the first and moving into arms trafficking with the Skobel Group in Black Monday.

Meanwhile, Detective Constable Frank Carter of the plainclothes Metropolitan Police unit "Flying Squad"[[note]]In the 2000s, it's under the Specialist Crime Directorate. It's currently under the Serious & Organized Crime Command as of the 2020s.[[/note]] has long wanted to take down Jolson and the [=BGs=] with it. However, he's been accused publicly of being a CowboyCop in his work and [[RealityEnsues his antics in taking down the gangs have forced Detective Chief Inspector Clive McCormack to temporarily remove him from the case]]. Of course, that doesn't stop him and he later learns that his superior is a DirtyCop with links to Jolson and later on, his assassination is just the beginning of something bigger with Jolson's plans to reshape organized crime.

-->'''Paul Saunders''' (as Mark): But what if I go [[HeroGoesFishing skydiving]]?

* HateSink: Charlie Johnson was already hated in-universe before the plot of the game even starts because he was THE drug lord of London. The game manual explains that he wants to go back to the glory days when he was one. It ends just as you would expect, only worse, because in order to force him to smuggle drugs and fight against the rival drug lords he kidnaps Mark's son and kills his wife.

-->'''Paul Saunders''' (as Mark): But what if I go skydiving?

-->'''Paul''': What if I forget to bathe?

-->'''Paul''': But what if I kill my kid?

* BeatBag: Mark is supposed to hand Yardie drug money to the Bethnal Green crew. Instead, he arranges for his friend Liam to get the money and places a stray cat in the bag, which he gives to the gang.

* TurnInYourBadge: Following Jake's bust-out, [=McCormack=] is outraged with Frank and blames him for the loss of the dead police officers and asks why he didn't call for backup. Frank accuses [=McCormack=] of failing to inform him about the automatic weapons and M79 grenade launcher used by Jake and claims the entire escort was a setup. [=McCormack=] shouts at Frank once again and suspends him from duty. Frank however states that the operation stinks and vows to find out why. He leaves McCormack's office and slams the door behind him.

* ArtisticLicenseLawEnforcement: Although part of the Metropolitan Police Service, Frank Carter is stationed at Snow Hill, which is actually part of the City of London Police Force. These are two different police forces.

* BittersweetEnding[=/=]NoEnding: [[spoiler: Mark is alive, but his wife is dead, and he can never return to London. Yasmin and Alex also get off the boat just moments before it blows, but we don't know if they managed to get out of London before the cops or other gangs found and killed Mark and Yasmin. Frank Carter also escapes by diving into the harbor, but we don't know if he survived the fall]].[[DownerEnding downright depressing]].

* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: In the first game the London wing of the real life 14K Triad controls the city's heroin trade. Their standing by the time of the second game is left ambiguous, but it's suggested that like the other gangs, they've become weak.

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* AnotherSideOfTheStory: Finishing Mark Hammond's story allows players to play through Frank Carter's arc.

* PoliticallIncorrectVillain: Charlie Jolson is an aging white LondonGangster who resents the multiculturalism of modern London's organized crime community. Not only are he and his nephew Jake casually racist, constantly throwing racial slurs at TheYardies and The Triads, his entire evil plot is to lure all his rivals into a trap so he can blow them up and [[EvilReactionary 'bring things back to how they used to be']]. As if to remove all doubt, at the end of the game he rants about the "mixing of the fucking races", and says "you give these people a little bit of space, and what do you get? Fucking disorder!" He is contrasted by the more cosmopolitan [[EqualOpportunityEvil Collins Crew]], one of whose members (who happens to be black) refers to Jolson as a 'National Front[[note]]the National Front being a British far-right racist political movement that was mostly active during the [=80s=][[/note]] geezer', and their leader Nick {{lampshades}} his attitudes by calling him "a bad hangover from a different era". While downplayed compared to their racism, Jolson and his underlings are also casually misogynistic as well - one particular goon nonchalantly objectifies women who have just been violently killed and sends [[PlayerCharacter Mark Hammond]] off to essentially kidnap a 'dancing slut' for Jolson.

* DownerBeginning: The first game starts with Hammond's son getting kidnapped and his wife being shot and killed.